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Friday, February 27, 2015

Bidar Share in Railway Budget,

South Central Railway Gets Rs. 2,768 Cr for Infra: Report

Hyderabad: An amount of Rs. 2,768 crore has been sanctioned in the Railway Budget for the year 2015-16 towards infrastructure development in South Central Railway (SCR), 24 per cent more than last year, official sources said here on Thursday.

The total outlay earmarked for new lines, doubling bridges, road over bridges, traffic facilities and other specified works is Rs. 984.33 crore, which is 60 per cent higher as compared to Rs. 616 crore during the previous financial year, SCR General Manager P K Srivastava told reporters.

For new lines, the budgetary grant for 2015-16 is Rs. 511.6 crore, 23 per cent more than previous year, he said.

"For doubling works, the budgetary grant for 2015-16 is Rs.233 crore, 331.56 per cent more than previous year. For bridges, the budgetary grant for 2015-16 is Rs. 26.9 crore, which is 61 per cent more than previous year," Mr Srivastava said.

For road over bridges, the budgetary grant is Rs. 101.67 crore and for traffic facilities, the grant is Rs. 40.68 crore for the current financial year, he said.

In terms of budgetary allocations for important ongoing new line projects, Rs. 141 crore was allotted for the Peddapalli-Karimnagar-Nizamabad project and Rs. 100 crore for Mellacheruvu-Vishnupuram project, while Rs. 130 crore was allotted for Nandyal-Yerraguntla project which would help complete these three projects, Mr Srivastava said.

He said that Rs. 20 crore was allotted for the Manoharabad-Kothapalli project and Rs. 110 crores for the Nadikudi-Srikalahasti project,